Dispersion-compensated beam-splitting of femtosecond light pulses: Wave optics analysis

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 278-288

  Mínguez Vega, Gladys ^a   Tajahuerce, Enrique ^a   Fernández Alonso, Mercedes ^a   Climent, Vicent ^a   Lancis, Jesús ^a   Caraquitena, José ^b   Andrés, Pedro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WAVE EQUATIONS;

DIFFRACTIVE SPOTS; MULTIFOCAL PROCESSING; SPATIOTEMPORAL WAVE FIELD; WAVE OPTICS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 33846483620     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.000278     Document Type: Article

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